Hitting 'off-handed' actually gives one more power in baseball and more power and control in golf. In fact, that's why Phil Mickelson plays left-handed and why Mickey Mantle's longest HR were from the left side.

Here's a golf tip that really helped me as a lefty playing right: (only) on putts <10', try "left hand low" (cross-handed). It's a bit uncomfortable at first, but now the six footers are rolling in like a "pro's"!

After I got used to 'adapting' to RH scissors, yet still cutting with my left, I never could get left-handed scissors to work in my left hand!

I'm a lefty but batted and golfed right handed. In little league I could not pick up the ball batting left handed and struck out almost all the time. An opposing team coach suggested I try right handed. I did about mid season and never struck out again. So, when I got older my swing was adapted from the right and I took up golf that way.

I write, draw and throw left handed. I'm of the age when schools forced everyone to write right handed. I thwarted them. I was so good left handed in writing and art that my first grade teacher was smart enough to leave me alone.

With the advent of the computer I took to the mouse with my left hand on the Apple Mac computer. Maybe because early on I drew a lot on the computer. At work on the Windows PC computers for some reason I started using my right hand with the two button mouse. I'm not sure how that came about other than I was on an inferior OS. I don't use a mouse anymore but transferred most of my track pad computer use on laptops to my my right hand.

Now on the iPad I tap a lot with my right hand but draw with my left. I've gotten more ambidextrous over the years but still can't write and draw right handed. I've always been a 10 fingered both hands touch typist.

I'm ambidextrous, although I naturally write with my left hand and there are a select few things I have to use one or the other hand to do (bowl with my right, using a kitchen knife with my right, throw darts with my left). Virtually everything, though, I use whichever hand is more convenient at the time. Works out well if I'm carrying something or have hurt myself somehow. I can write with my right hand if I have to, but instead of the handwriting everyone has come to know and love it looks like a second-grader wrote it.

When I was a kid my baseball hero was Mel Ott, and he was a lefty. So naturally I would always bat left -- even kicking my right foot up at the start of my swing to step into the pitch just like Mel. That is most likely the reason I was such a lousy baseball player. See, I'm righthanded.

I'm ambidextrous, although I naturally write with my left hand and there are a select few things I have to use one or the other hand to do (bowl with my right, using a kitchen knife with my right, throw darts with my left). Virtually everything, though, I use whichever hand is more convenient at the time. Works out well if I'm carrying something or have hurt myself somehow. I can write with my right hand if I have to, but instead of the handwriting everyone has come to know and love it looks like a second-grader wrote it.

The lady starts counter-clockwise, then changes to clockwise, for me.

I'm guessing, sine we all grew up in and live in a world built for "righties", that most lefties are to one dregree or another more ambidextrous than the 'standard' right-hander.

As a result, I played handball at a level far greater than my 'natural athleticism'. The same was true in tennis where I developed a killer backhand from having it hit at so regularily by RHers' forehands.

When I was a kid my baseball hero was Mel Ott, and he was a lefty. So naturally I would always bat left -- even kicking my right foot up at the start of my swing to step into the pitch just like Mel. That is most likely the reason I was such a lousy baseball player. See, I'm righthanded.

You would have been better served to have been a Yankee fan and emulating Joltin' Joe!

When I was a kid my baseball hero was Mel Ott, and he was a lefty. So naturally I would always bat left -- even kicking my right foot up at the start of my swing to step into the pitch just like Mel. That is most likely the reason I was such a lousy baseball player. See, I'm righthanded.

You would have been better served to have been a Yankee fan and emulating Joltin' Joe!

I'm guessing, sine we all grew up in and live in a world built for "righties", that most lefties are to one dregree or another more ambidextrous than the 'standard' right-hander.

As a result, I played handball at a level far greater than my 'natural athleticism'. The same was true in tennis where I developed a killer backhand from having it hit at so regularily by RHers' forehands.

True enough. I just know it has fascinated more than one doctor (and the majority of my co-workers) when I switch hands arbitrarily depending on what I'm doing or if one of my hands gets tired. I guess more accurately I should say I'm mixed-handed, since I can't do everything with either hand equally well.

Well, I started out lefty (one bros is..one sister ain't. other bros is righty, but now a quad so tends to use his left more). Burnt my hand really badly when I was 4. Bandages for almost a year. It's about the time when you learn to draw, letters etc. So.today I'm not only old and ugly, I'm confused. Write right handed, throw left handed. If I put my hands together, as in prayer, left thumb is on top(supposedly another test). Never did learn to type!

When I was a kid my baseball hero was Mel Ott, and he was a lefty. So naturally I would always bat left -- even kicking my right foot up at the start of my swing to step into the pitch just like Mel. That is most likely the reason I was such a lousy baseball player. See, I'm righthanded.

Michael, did you know that Mel Ott hit 83 career home runs against the Pittsburgh Pirates, more than any other player in MLB history?

When I was a kid my baseball hero was Mel Ott, and he was a lefty. So naturally I would always bat left -- even kicking my right foot up at the start of my swing to step into the pitch just like Mel. That is most likely the reason I was such a lousy baseball player. See, I'm righthanded.

Michael, did you know that Mel Ott hit 83 career home runs against the Pittsburgh Pirates, more than any other player in MLB history?

No, I did not. But what else could be expected from my hero. When I was a little boy - starting at 4 years old -- I was Mel Ott's dog. OK. I was actually my father's dog, but as he hunted with Mel Ott, and they needed a dog to go after the rails they shot along the Housatonic River, I was Mel Ott's dog, too.

When I was a kid my baseball hero was Mel Ott, and he was a lefty. So naturally I would always bat left -- even kicking my right foot up at the start of my swing to step into the pitch just like Mel. That is most likely the reason I was such a lousy baseball player. See, I'm righthanded.

Michael, did you know that Mel Ott hit 83 career home runs against the Pittsburgh Pirates, more than any other player in MLB history?

Now I know why the Pirates erected that 20' screen in short right in Forbes Field! Ott was known as the "King of the Short Porch" in the Polo Grounds and in the vast Forbes the only "cheap HR" prior to the screen was the 300' foul pole in right.

So, the girl twirled in both directions? There is a link in the article that explains the "implications" of that.

BTW: Mrs. Metro also sees the girl spinning in both directions. She says that is the natural ressult of learning to read right-to-left, then emigrating to the U.S. for her graduate education and having to learn how to read left-to-right.

Dearfolk, Time to confess. I too am left-handed. I bat right, pitch either way (poorly), and brush my teeth right-handed. But I can't write right-handed for the life of me. Sinisterially, Ort. Carlton in Oft-Backwards Athens, Georgia.

Dearfolk, Time to confess. I too am left-handed. I bat right, pitch either way (poorly), and brush my teeth right-handed. But I can't write right-handed for the life of me. Sinisterially, Ort. Carlton in Oft-Backwards Athens, Georgia.

Since a number of us above have referred to being "sinister" I have a professorial urge to explain to those who are so unfortunate as not to have had two years of Latin required for graduation from high school.

In Latin, the word for left is sinister; the word for right is dexter. Of course we all know the common English meanings of 'sinister' and 'dexterous'. Requiring Latin facilitated (quite literally!) the acquisition of advanced English vocabulary, complex structure, and made it a snap to learn the other Romance languages.

As an educator one of my great frustrations is the tragic lack of vocabulary and language skills among the modern products of our public schools. As an wxample, not 1 in 50 can define properly the meaning of 'frontier'; most all simply babble something about Captain Kirk or 'cowboys & indians'!

My reading of written assignments reveals extensive use of pidgins and only simple tenses. I'd pass dead away if ever I saw the proper use of the past perfect or imperfect; if ever I should see the subjuctive out of one of these creatures I would expect a stampede of admissions counselors from Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford coming for the kid!

Presently, we spend more per pupil on public education than every country save for Switzerland and we are told we don't spend enough. Now the push is giving each student a Wi-Fi enabled laptop for classroom use.

Frankly, it was bad enough when the Columbine tragedy somehow bestowed upon students 'the right' to carry cell-phones; now, however - to borrow from my 'limited to 140 character unfortunates': IMHO, giving them machines like these, enabled by Wi-Fi, is like giving them an M-16 to trim their toenails. The inevitable result is a bloody mess.

How can today's teachers possiblt compete for the classroom attention of students with Wi-Fi enabled I-Phones and MacBooks? Tragic, but true; they simply cannot. And, the Road to Hell is paved with ... ? The Rubicon is crossed; alia iacta est.

Sorry for the rant, but I am left-handed, right-brained, and truly sad.